Sunday, September 7, 2008

Dangerous, Hypocritical Girls' Games: The White House Project

Last Tuesday [8/26/08], a coalition of feminist groups, including the White House Project, held a forum on women in politics at the Performing Arts Center in Denver. By week’s end, their world was rocked.On Friday, John MCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate.The White House Project exists to get women elected to office — and ultimately, to the White House. But in much the same way that the NAACP doesn’t exist to herald Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell, feminists really only champion a certain type of woman — a type Sarah Palin doesn’t fit. Quote from Katheryn Lopez - "We're Not Sisters with Her, at National Review Online

The White House Project is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. It is considered a charity. The mission is to woo young women to their leadership programs, to be groomed to do the work of Liberal women. Is my statement biased or over stated? Maybe, but judging by the WHP's Board of Directors, this organization is decidely Liberal-leaning.

To echo Katherine Lopez, the WHP will not be helping Sarah to the White House. When Palin was announced as McCain's VP choice, the stalwart leader and President of the WHP, Marie Wilson, wrote a piece for the Huffington Post. In her Hostage to Abortion Politics," she opines that Palin's pro-life posture puts American women in an impossible situation: choose a woman on the merit of being a woman, or choose a women who is pro-choice.

Nevermind that Roe v Wade is "settled" law, and the Obama-Biden ticket is exceedingly unattractive on issues that many pro-choice women may be concerned about.Wilson sees pro-choice this way:

...the way our country should "choose life" -- by choosing policies that don't condone torture or chain immigrant women to their beds while their children are taken away (it happened in Tennessee recently; look it up)

So yes, I "choose life," and I will choose only politicians who do the same. It has very little to do with abortion and everything to do with the lives that follow in the wake of birth.

In otherwords, by choosing to abort your child, you have chosen to choose life. It's the Bill Clinton maneuver of Monicagate: "...it all depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

Wilson's rhetoric is dishonest. You cannot choose life, and abort a child...then say you've chosen life by championing the life of those you decided to give life to. Being pro-choice is one thing...being this baldly dishonest about the result of choosing abortion, is another.

Here's a few more gems from Lopez:

...Feminists for Life and the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List are fully behind Palin....

If you’re voting because you’re into good girl role models, you’ll like “Sarah” (as everyone seems to be referring to her), who is very far away from the faux-feminism of the one-free-grope Clinton apologists — something most self-proclaimed feminists can say....

If women flock to McCain-Palin, it may not be because Palin has a uterus but because they vote Republican, know we’re at war, and aren’t into the silly girls’ games the Left likes to play.

The White House Project's Women Leaders page reveals the philosophy behind the Project, and there is nothing non-partisan about it. Of the twenty-one (21) WHP Board Members, including President Wilson, I found sixteen (16) of them listed as Democrat contributors at FundRace2008 at the Huffington Post. No information was available on the remaining four (4).

Donations by White House Project President and Board of Directors:Links are provided to each donation. It is obvious that some of these donation were made a few years ago and are not pertinent to today's elections. Not all donations to Democrats found at FundRace 2008 are shown. My apologies if there is a typo or you find a transposition (a confirming link is provided).

As I began checking donations, I realized it was probably not going to result in finding even a lone Republican donor, and if there are Conservative donors, they are few. The White House Project may NEVER get a woman into the White House because they are out-of-step with traditional American values. As they help train young entrepreneurial women (a good thing), abortion is their issue, and to these women, abortion tops our Nation's security.

With Sarah Palin's possible transition to the White House, organizations like the White House Project strive to plant the seeds of their pro-choice agenda as the only agenda that can give women control of their lives. At the same time, they abandon the pro-choice women who are more complex than one-issue voters.

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3 comments:

Why are these feminists against the torture of enemy combatants in war with water, but they promote the torture of the unborn by subjecting the unborn to amputation, mutilation, and intense pain with surgical instruments and salt water 'acid baths'? Not only do feminists support the killing of the unborn, but they support the cruelest forms of terminating a life. Just the thought.....they are so very wicked and cold.

Thanks so much for posting this for me. It IS amazing...what we can find out there.

Any young woman would want the backing of this powerful group of women and wouldn't want to turn it down. That's understandable, but the WHP is doing them a great disservice, not to mention the disservice of choosing to withhold federal grants to young women who refuse to champion NARAL, and would likely not be picked to be a Woman Leader in the WHP.

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